Notes

1. Now President of the Central Bank. Back

2. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., I983. Back

3. Chen Yizi gave an account of the history of the foundation in an interview with Lu Keng on 1 October 1989 in Paris: 'Chen Yizi Exposes the Plot of Overthrowing Zhao Ziyang - the Whole Story of the Soros Event. 'Pai Hsing.' No. 203, 1 November, 1989. Back

4. See Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, I.15. Back

5. Erman. Die Literatur der Aegypten (1923), pp. 130-148, quoted in Karl Jaspers: Man in the Modern Age (Doubleday Anchor, 1957, p. 18). Back

6. See George Soros, The Alchemg of Finance (Simon and Schuster, 1987). Back

7. The outstanding practitioner of silence was Janos Kornai, who, after writing the most incisive theoretical analysis, kept himself meticulously above the fray until quite recently. Back

8. These lines were written before Soviet military repression in Azerbaijan, but I do not see any need to revise them. Back

9. cf. Alexander Yanov, The Russian Challenge (Basil Blackwell, 1987). Back

10. 7 December 1989. Back

11. The end of the story is that they went back to the same old yogi, who delivered a Solomonic judgement. The one who found the magic formula should be her father; the one who emerged from the same ashes should be her brother; the one who guarded her ashes, her servant. That left the man who went back to his village to be her husband. Back

12. (15 March 1990) The fact that Gorbachev felt compelled to avoid popular election does not auger well for a strong presidency. Back

13. It has been pointed out to me by William Newton-Smith that my interpretation of Gödel numbers differs from Gödel's own. Apparently. Gödel envisaged a Platonic universe in which Gödel numbers existed before he discovered them; whereas I think that Gödel numbers were invented by him, thereby enlarging the universe in which he was operating. I think my interpretation makes more sense. It certainly makes Gödel's theorem intuitively easier to accept. Back